Awards

International Awards

2007 – Best Paper award at the 2007 International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, Keith Underwood, Courtenay Vaughan and Ron Brightwell
2005 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist "A Scalable Distributed Parallel Breadth--First Search Algorithm on {BlueGene/L," Andy Yoo, Edmond Chow, Keith Henderson, William McLendon III, Bruce Hendrickson
2004 – Gordon Bell Award for "Ultrascalable Implicit Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics with over Half a Billion Degrees of Freedom," Mark F. Adams (Sandia National Laboratories), Harun H. Bayraktar (Abuqus Corporation), Tony M. Keaveny (U.C. Berkeley), Panayiotis Papadopoulos (U.C.Berkeley)
2002 – Gordon Bell Prize for Special Accomplishment in Supercomputing Based on Innovation
1999 – Mannheim SuParCup'99 Winners with "Scalable Parallel Crash Simulations": 9100/9200 Team
1998 – Best of Web Award, (circa 8/98): http://www.popsci.com/context/features/bow
1998 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: M. Sears
1998 – Reissner Medal winner S.W. Attaway at the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science for Excellence in Computational Mechanics Research
1997 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: Scientific Computations on Parallel Machines, MPSalsa Team
1997 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: Transient Solid Dynamics Simulation on the Sandia/Intel Teraflop Computer (Pronto)
1995 – New York Festival's Finalist Award for Introducing MuSE (technical documentation)
1994 – Gordon Bell Prize Winner
1994 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: Scientific Computations on Parallel Machines, MPSalsa Team
1988 – Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize Winner
1988 – Karp Challenge Winner (unique, given only once for first group to exceed 200-fold speed-up on an MPP)

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R&D 100 Awards

2007 - Novint Falxon and Novint/Sandia 3D-Touch Software (joint with Novint, Inc.). George S. Davidson
2006 - Computer Process Allocator. Vitus Leung (PI), Michael Bender (SUNY Stony Brook), David Bunde (University of Illinois), Kevin Pedretti, Cynthia Phillips
2005 – Assurance Featuring TripleTred Technology
2004 – Trilinos: Development of Trilinos framework to facilitate the design, development, integration and ongoing support of mathematical software libraries, Mike Heroux
2000 – Sandia Microstructure Property Model Software Package
1999 – Salvo: Seismic Imaging Software
1997 – Aztec: A Parallel Sparse Matrix Solver Library
1997 – HPSS(with LLNL, LANL, & ORNL)
1996 – ATM OC-12c Protocol Engine
1996 – Scalable ATM Encryptor
1994 – Parallel Dense Equation Solver Software Library
1994 – SANDROS Operating System (motion planner for robotic manipulators)
1993 – Paving Mesh Generation Algorithm
1991 – Cryptographic Synchronization Loss Detector
1990 – Phase Gradient Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar
1989 – Parallel Computing Software for Scientific Problems
1986 – SANDAC IV Parallel Processor Embedded Computer

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Other Awards and Honors

2007 - APS Fellow, Richard Fye
2007 - Best Algorithms Paper Award, "Hypergraph-based Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Scientific Computations," IEEE 2007 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS07), Zoltan Team: Umit V. Catalyurek (Ohio St. Univ.), Erik G. Boman (SNL), Karen D. Devine (SNL), Doruk Bozdag (Ohio St. Univ.), Robert Heaphy (SNL), Lee Ann Riesen (SNL)
2006 - Recognition from Congresswoman Heather Wilson as a “Builder of Community and Dreams" (Cynthia A. Phillips)
2006 - Best paper award at 2nd International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware for "Realizing Parallelism in Database Operations: Insights From a Massively Multithreaded Architecture" (Jon Berry and Bruce Hendrickson).
2006 - Finalist for SIAM Activity Group in Linear Algebra Prize in '06 for "Support Theory for Preconditioning" (Erik Boman and Bruce Hendrickson).
2006 - Red Storm placed #2 in the Supercomputing TOP500 list in 11/2006.
2006 - Several people in 1400 were part of the Red Storm Supercomputing Design and Development Team that won a Lockheed Martin's NOVA Award for teamwork. Team Memebers: Robert Ballance (4328), Linda Bonnefoy-Lev (4014), Ron Brightwell (1423), Bill Camp (1400) Douglas Doerfler (1422), Sue Kelly (1423), John Neagle (4336), John Noe (4328), Kevin Pedretti (1423), Mahesh Rajan (4328), Leonard Stans (4336), Judy Sturtevant (4328), James Tomkins (1420), Keith Underwood (1423), John Van Dyke (1423), Courtney Vaughn (1422), Lee Ward (1422), David White (4340), and John Zepper (4320).
2005 - Finalist for Gordon Bell Prize in high performance computing for "A Scalable Distributed Parallel Breadth--First Search Algorithm on BlueGene/L" (Will McLendon and Bruce Hendrickson).
2004 – Runner up in the Second Industrial Properties Fluids Simulation Challenge - Category: Vapor Pressure and Heat of Vaporization of Liquids, Marcus G. Martin and Mary J. Biddy
2003 – NNSA Defense Programs CY2003 Award of Excellence went to the team that developed the Photocnductive Semiconductor Switch (PCSS) technology from discovery to application in the W80. Harold Hjalmarson's (Dept. 9235) efforts in developing the theory of the PCSS was a valuable contribution to this team.
2003 – Winners of the First Industrial Fluids Simulation Challenge - Category: Viscosity. (Sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Nov. 2003) Marcus Martin and Aidan Thompson
2003 – Distinguished Engineering Fellow, Mississippi State University, Ronald B. Brightwell
2002-2003 – Outstanding Service Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee, Anthony Giunta
2002– One of the top 10 research advances in materials in 2002. "Calculating at the Interface, Challenging Interfacial Properties Yield to New Theoretical Methods," Chemical and Engineering News, American Chemical Society, Nov. 11, 2002, Ann E. Mattsson
2002 – Gold World Medal (1st place) in the 2002 New York Festivals in the Computer Science Category. "Computer Haptics: Feel the Future" - A video on computer touch technology. Produced by Regina Valenzuela (9227), written by Susan Blumenthal and Arthurine Breckenridge (formerly 9227)
2002 – Crystal Award of Excellence (1st place) in the 2002 Communicator Awards in the Government/Educational Category. "Computer Haptics: Feel the Future" - A video on computer touch technology. Produced by Regina Valenzuela (9227), written by Susan Blumenthal and Arthurine Breckenridge (formerly 9227)
2002 – A Silver Screen award (2nd place) in the 2002 US International Film and Video Festival-Sciences, Research and Exploration category. "VIEWS Corridor"- A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
2002 – A Silver AXIEM Award (2nd Place) in the 2002 Absolute Excellence in Electronic Media Competition-Technical Video category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
2002 – A Finalist Award in the 2002 New York Festivals Film and Video Competition-Computer Science category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
2002 – 1st place for predicting the viscosity of n-nonane/iospropanol mixtures in the "The First Industrial Fluids Properties Simulation Challenge," American Institute of Chemical Engineers Competition, Marcus Martin and Aidan Thompson
2001 – Honorable Mention Award in the 2001 International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Competition-Technical Report and Scientific Research category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
2001 – Honorable Mention Award in the 2001 Communicator Awards Festival-Government/Educational category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
2001 – Top 100 Producer, AV Video Multimedia Producer Magazine Arthurine R. Breckenridge
2000 – YWCA (Central Rio Grande) Woman on the Move in Science and Technology Award, C. A. Phillips
2000 – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): R. Lehoucq
2000 – Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Award in Science and Engineering: R. Lehoucq
2000 – Buneman Prize, International Conference on the Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP 2000) First Prize - Animation Category, Chris Garasi
1999 – 2nd place, "Best Mesh Competition," 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, Timothy Tautges
1999 – Winner of the Ballistics Neil Griffiths Memorial Award at the 18th International Symposium on Ballistics, San Antonio, TX, for "Experiments and Simulations of Spinning Shaped Charges with Fluted Liners" by M.E. Kipp, R.R. Martinez, E.S. Hertel, E.L. Baker, B.E. Fuchs, and C.L. Chin
1999 – EPSRC Visiting Fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK: R. Lehoucq
1999 – Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, Wilkes University: Karen Devine
1999 – Outstanding Student, University of New Mexico: Leigh Shoulta
1999 – Supercomputing Competition Winner: Kevin Oishi
1998 – Fellow, American Pysical Society, William J. Camp
1998 – Site of the Week, February 1998, International Webmasters Association: http://www.sandia.gov/media/dinosaur.htm
1998 – IEEE Vis Conference winner of best "Case Study" paper: P. Heermann
1998 – Winner of the Assembly Automation's Gunter Wittenberg Award, Outstanding Paper for "Automated assembly and fixture planning at Sandia National Laboratories" by T. Calton, R. Peters, and R. Jones
1997 – Eugene O'Connor and Tom Cramer Award from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: Kenneth Moreland
1997 – FY'97 DOE Outstanding Performance Award: Sandia National Laboratories' Computational & Information Sciences Research Foundation
1996 – Winner of the Hypervelocity Impact Symposium Best Paper Award for "Fragmentation Properties of Metals," D.E. Grade, and M.E. Kipp
1996 – Gold Medal for Concurrency in the High Performance Computing Challenge
1996 – Intel Supercomputer Users Group Meeting Best Paper Award for Pronto team
1995-1996 – White House Fellow, Robert Leland
1994 – High Performance Computing Excellence Award
1993 – Winner, New Mexico Inventor of the Year Program (MuSE)
1993 – ENNE Awards from Network World and Networld, National User Award
1992 – SC'92: Hetergeneous Computing Challenge Award Winner
1992 – Distinguished Achievement, New Mexico Inventor of the Year Program (Computer Architecture)
1991 – Best Paper, BENESUS 1991 Conference
1991 – Interop Achievement Award
1991 – Unsung Hero of Computer Security Award
1990 – Best Paper, NEXUS User Group
1990 – Best Paper, XIIth International Congress for Electron Microscopy for "Parallel Microscopy Modeling"

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Patents
(http://www.freepatentsonline.com/)

2007 - Patent #7,219,039, Method for Generating a Mesh Representation of a Region Characterized by a Trunk and a Branch Thereon. Granted May 2007, Jason F. Shepherd, Scott A. Mitchell, Steven R. Jankovich, Steven E. Benzley
2007 - Patent #7,181,377, Method of modifying a volume mesh using sheet extraction. Granted Feb. 20, 2007, Michael J. Borden and Jason F. Shepherd
2006 - Patent #7,098,912, Method of modifying a volume mesh using sheet insertion. Granted Aug. 29, 2006, Michael J. Borden and Jason F. Shepherd
2006 – Patent # 7,013,395, Method and Tool for Network Vulnerability Analysis. Granted 3/14/06, Cynthia Phillips, Laura Swiler
2006 – Patent # 7,065,736 B1, System for Generating Two-Dimensional Masks from a Three-Dimensional Model Using Topological Analysis. Granted 6/20/06, Richard Schiek
2006 – , Automatic Detection of Sweep-Meshable Volumes. Granted 5/23/06, Tim Tautges, David White
2006 – Patent # 6,985,867, Method of Predicting a Change in an Economy. Granted 1/10/06, Richard Pryor
2004 – , Internal Lewis Acid Single Site Catalyst Family for Polymerization of Polar Monomers. Granted August 17, 2004, Dean M. Phillipp, Richard P. Muller, William A. Goddard, III
2003 – Patent # 6,519,553, Multiprocessor Computer Overset Grid Method and Apparatus. Granted February 11, 2003, Daniel W. Barnette and Curtis C. Ober
2002 – Patent # 6,356,860, Method of Grid Generation. Granted March 12, 2002, Daniel W. Barnette
2000 – Patent # 6,021,094, Method of Migrating Seismic Records. Granted February 1, 2000, Curtis C. Ober, Louis A. Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia
1999 – Patent # 5,987,470, Method of Data Mining Including Determining Multidimensional Coordinates of Each Item Using a Predetermined Scalar Similarity Value for Each Item Pair. Granted November 16, 1999, Charles E. Meyers, George S. Davidson, David K. Johnson, Bruce A. Hendrickson, Brian N. Wylie
1999 – Patent # 5,955,801, Microfabricated Microengine with Constant Rotation Rate. Granted September 21, 1999, Louis A. Romero, Fred M. Dickey
1999 – Patent # 5,935,216, Methods for Operating Parallel Computing Systems Employing Sequenced Communications, Granted August 10, 1999, Robert E. Benner, John L. Gustafson, Gary R. Montry
1999 – Patent #5859642, Virtual Button Interface. Granted January 12, 1999, J. S. Jones
1998 – Patent # 5,795,581, Controlled Release of Molecular Components of Dendrimer/bioactive Complexes. Granted August 18, 1998, Daniel J. Segalman, J. Shield Wallace
1998 – Patent # 5,768,156, Connectivity-based, All-hexahedral Mesh Generation Method and Apparatus. Granted June 16, 1998, Timothy J. Tautges, Scott a. Mitchell, Teddy D. Blacker
1998 – Patent # 5,754,447, Process for Predicting Structural Performance of Mechanical Systems. Granted May 19, 1998, Steven J. Plimpton, Courtenay T. Vaughan, David R. Gardner, Bruce A. Hendrickson, Martin W. Heinstein, Stephen W. Attaway
1997 – Patent # 5,680,524, Synthetic Environment Employing a Craft for Providing User Perspective Reference. Granted October 21, 1997, Creve C. Maples
1997 – Patent # 5,657,465, Direct Match Data Flow Machine Apparatus and Process for Data Driven Computing. Granted August 12, 1997, George S. Davidson, V. Gerald Grafe
1997 – Patent # 5,630,129, Dynamic Load Balancing of Applications. Granted May 13, 1997, Stephen Randolph Wheat, Arthur Bernard Macc
1996 – Patent # 5,488,692, System and method for representing and manipulating three-dimensional objects on massively parallel architectures. Granted January 30, 1996, Michael S. Karasick, David R. Strip
1996 – Patent # 5,587,922, Multi-Dimensional Spectral Load Balancing. Granted December 24, 1996, Robert W. Leland, Bruce A. Hendrickson
1996 – Patent # 5,544,282, Method and Apparatus for Planning Motions of Robot Manipulators. Granted August 6, 1996, Pang-chieh Chen, Yong K. Hwang
1995 – Patent # 5,465,368, Data Flow Machine for Data Driven Computing. Granted November 7, 1995, George Davidson, V. Gerald Grafe
1995 – Patent # 5,424,743, 2-D weighted Least-squares Phase Unwrapping. Granted June 13, 1995, Louis Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia
1994 – Patent # 5,315,537, Automated Quadrilateral Surface Discretization Method and Apparatus Usable to Generate Mesh in a Finite Element Analysis System. Granted May 24, 1994, Teddy D. Blacker
1994 – Patent #5299262, Method for Exponentiating in Cryptographic Systems. Granted March 29, 1994, Ernest F. Brickell, Kevin S. McCurly, Daniel M. Gordon
1993 – Patent # 5,226,131, Sequencing and Fan-Out Mechanism for Causing a Set of at Least Two Sequential Instructions to be Performed in a Data flow Processing. Granted July 6, 1993, V. Gerald Grafe, James E. Hoch
1991 – Patent # 5,072,371, Method for Simultaneous Overlapped Communications Between Neighboring Processors in a Multiple. Granted December 10, 1991, Robert E. Benner Jr., John L. Gustafson, Gary R. Montry
1990 – Patent # 4,977,596, Cryptographic Synchronization Recovery by Measuring Randomness of Decrypted Data. Granted December 11, 1990, L. G. Pierson, J. H. Maestas
1990 – Patent # 4,924,229, Phase Correction System for Automatic Focusing of Synthetic Aperture Radar. Granted May 8, 1990, Paul H. Eichel, Charles V. Jakowatz, Jr., Dennis C. Ghiglia
1990 – Patent # 4,893,234, Multi-Processor Including Data Flow Accelerator Module. Granted January 9, 1990, George S. Davidson, Paul E. Pierce
1989 – Patent # 4,841,550, Universal Null DTE. Granted June 20, 1989, Michael George, Lyndon G. Pierson